Lesley is still battling, but is now looking as if she may win, at last. The doctors wanted to keep her on the ventilator as long as possible, sedated because she won’t be able to have pain killers when she wakes up. However, she seems to have other ideas as she fought the ventilator until they took her off it. She is now breathing on her own, her heart is stronger and she is beginning to wake up. I know we seem to have been here before, but I just pray that this time she does it. The jokes continue, and no, Mr Shaw, they have not been too risque - yet. I have told her yours, though, from another thread, and some of the others, and I shall tell her them again when she can chuckle at them. Also the music keeps going, mostly on CDs because I am running out of finger power, but she loves the dance music so much that I feel it will wake her. It will be so good if she can even get out of ICU!
Thank you all again and again for your kindness, your wonderful hearts and smileys on your posts and your support for us both. I still find it hard to believe that any group of people could be so wonderful to those they don’t even know. Music is a wonderful thing.
With my continued heartfelt thanks.
Roland (mr devondancer)
There is an actual community here, even if it is made up of people who, for the most part, have never met face-to-face.
This little community serves as a model for what I used to hope the whole internet might one day become, a single community that would bring out the best in us instead of the worst.
It’s odd, isn’t it? Shannon and I have never met you face to face, but we do care.
Keep on talking to her and playing for her; even if she’s not awake, there is a part of her that knows that you are there.
And as I said in another post, Roland, make sure you are taking care of YOU, too. Leslie will be depending on you to be healthy to help her. It’s very easy for the “caretaker” to neglect themselves in favor of the “ill” one.
Rest, eat, get as much exercise as you can.
And let us know if there is anything WE can do from far away.
I haven’t posted a response on your previous threads, but I’ve been following your posts, and wish Lesley a speedy but steady recovery. I know she is aware of all the music a jokes, and it is helping her fight.
If you need a good joke, tell her the one about the guy who plays his cello to the seals, but beware, it’s the funniest joke ever so may be best reserved until she is fully recovered.
There is no way to measure the power of music and Steve Shaw’s jokes.
Here is my addition to the joke list.
Two Devonians are adrift at sea after escaping a sinking ship. While searching for food in the lifeboat’s supplies, one of the men discovers an old lamp. The man jokingly rubs the lamp hoping that a genie will appear. To their amazement, a genie does appear, and because it is a Cornish Genie he grants the Devon boys only one wish.
Without thinking the first Devonian shouts, “Make the entire ocean into Doom Bar!” The genie claps his hands and the entire sea turns into the finest brew ever sampled by man or woman.
In a flash of light the genie disappears and they are left with the sweet aroma of unlimited juice of the hop.
The second Devonian looks at the other and says “You tit!”
The other says “What? We have an ocean of Doom Bar. It’s a dream come true.”
The second replies, “Yes, but we are going to have to piss in the boat.”